Word: swifts
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...misleading words-"non-scientific Dublin, of all places"-in an otherwise excellent account,' your reporter on Schrodinger [TIME, Feb. 10] needs a swift kick in the pants. The cut [Schrodinger's formula] at the page-top tells all-a new message in words old but not outworn. The mathematician reads it thus: "Schrodinger bases his theory on Hamilton's Principle, using as Lagrangian the square root of the negative of the determinant of the Ricci tensor...
Lack of a few critical materials, especially those needed for electrical wiring, is preventing the swift completion of the project, but Edwin B. Newman, associate director of the Psychological Laboratories, expects the remaining divisions of the department to be moved in within six weeks...
...swift and dramatic conclusion to his trial, former student Alfred B. Parkhurst yesterday pleaded guilty to 119 federal counts of forgery and theft of the mails, and was sentenced to a two year term in federal reformatory at Chilicothe, Ohio...
Greenburg, who with his wife owns about 23% of Diana Stores stock, attributes much of the swift rise of the company to his shrewd "good will" campaign. This calls for local store managers to hire local help, join Chambers of Commerce, become minor pillars in their respective communities. Harry Greenburg thought the best way to show his stockholders that his good will was more than skin deep was to turn down his stock options. Said Greenburg: "Money isn't everything in the world. I won't eat any more than I'm eating now if I exercise...
...qualities of suspense and its Austrian atmosphere, Author Millar's story recalls Ethel Vance's best-selling novel Escape (TIME, Sept. 25, 1939). Not particularly profound, it is swift and very readable. As a novel it has a fault typical of most such efforts to recreate recent history: the writer has tried to include characters symbolic of everything, from France to the U.S. officer corps...